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The Vedas are the Oldest Literary Texts on Earth

The Vedas which date back to as much as 10,000 years old is said to be the oldest literary records of humans.

They are the oldest written text on our planet Earth.

They are the recordings of Indian sages who first transferred it from one generation to other in an oral form and later went on to record it in the written form.

The recordings of the Rig Veda are believed to the oldest among all the four Vedas of the Indian Civilization.

Apple Seeds Contain Cyanide

The apple seeds that are known as “pips” contain sugar/cyanide compound named “amygdaline.” It turns into hydrogen cyanide as it is metabolized in your body. In fact, hydrogen cyanide was a key ingredient to Zyklon B, a pesticide used by the Nazis in their gas chambers.

However, there’s little to panic as ingesting a few seeds won’t kill you. The human body can handle a small dose of cyanide.

That said you should not chew a handful of apple seeds as they can “kill you” quickly.

So, don’t do it.

The Difference between the UK, England, and Great Britain

The sovereign state that we are referring here is known as The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island (UK).

The United Kingdom comprises of countries such as England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Island.

The term “Great Britain” is used to refer to land mass consisting of countries such as England, Scotland, and Wales.

England is known to be a part of the island that is known as “England.”

So in summary:

UK = England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern IslandGreat Britain = England, Scotland, and WalesEngland = It is part of the island known as “England.”

It Costs more than Pouble to Produce Pennies and Nickels

If we go by the U.S. Mint Department, it costs more to produce a penny and nickel than the coins themselves are worth.

The cost is estimated to be 1.23 cents (including materials, labor, machinery, shipping, and other costs) to produce a penny and 5.73 cents for a nickel during 2006.

Currently, it costs nearly 2.4 cents to produce a penny and 11.2 cents to produce a nickel.

Your skin will have an orangish yellow shade if you eat an excessive amount of Carrots

A fake tan is not the only way to get an orangish shade on your skin. We can also consume large amounts of orange plants (orange carrots) to get orangish/yellow shade on your skin.

The condition is known as carotenemia.

It can commonly be seen in infants who are often fed copious amounts of mashed carrots and other vegetables that have high amounts of carotene.

Carotene is a pigment.

When you consume a lot of carotene related food items or vegetables, the carotene levels in your body build up, and your skin turns orangish-yellow.

The effect is first visible with your nose and palms.

Most Streets in Japan don’t have Names

In Japan, they follow a very different addressing system than the most Western countries. The streets in Japan don’t have names.

Rather, the streets are given block numbers. The city area has been divided up into blocks, and each one is given a number. So, when you want to find some location, you should ask what block it is in.

Bubble Wrap was Initially Designed as a Wallpaper

Bubble Wrap was invented by two engineers named Al Fielding and Marc Chavannes in Hawthorne, N.J. in the year 1957.

However, originally the product was not meant to be used as a packaging material. It was meant to be used as textured wallpaper.

They sealed two shower curtains together so that it captured air bubbles and made the textured appearance for their wallpaper.

However, the idea was not a success.

Not deterred by this failure, they set out and found another use for it as greenhouse insulation.

This idea was also not successful.

It was only three years later that that Frederick W. Bowers, a marketer at Sealed Air, found a perfect use for this product.

On 5th October 1959, IBM announced their new 1401 Computer. Bowers got the idea that Bubble Wrap could come out as a good packaging material for protecting the computer while shipping.

He pitched this idea to IBM and went on to demonstrate its protective abilities. The demonstration was successful, and IBM began to purchase Bubble Wrap for protecting their 1401.

Now, the company sales stand at a whopping $4 billion with a net profit of around $255 million. In fact, $400 million worth of Bubble Wrap is sold annually.

Every Possible State with a Standard Rubik’s Cube Can be Solved with 20 Moves or Less

It can be a “Big” surprise for you.

Well, the all 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 positions with a standard Rubik’s Cube could be resolved in 20 moves or less.

In fact, if you are serious about solving a Rubik’s Cube, then you can do it by following a sequence of steps (some sort of algorithm). It can help you to solve the puzzle.

These algorithms can be memorized and can be used by a human. Typically this can be done with 40 moves.

It was proved in July 2010 by Tomas Rokicki, Morley Davidson, Herbert Kociemba, and John Dethridge.

They proved that one needs only as much as 20 moves to solve any position with a Rubik’s Cube.

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There was a land dispute between India and Bangladesh. The area in question was New Moore or South Talpatti. However, the island got drowned due to global warming in 2010. So, the Global Warming helped to settle a land dispute between India and Bangladesh. No land left, no dispute left.

The ‘Snake Island’ in Sao Paulo is one of the world’s deadliest islands. The 110 acre ‘Snake Island’ has 4000 snakes. It is one snake for every 6 square yards. You can find Golden Lancehead. The venom is capable of melting human flesh.

You wouldn’t believe this one. But it’s true. Russia has a much larger surface area as compared to Pluto. Pluto is 2370 square kilometers. It can easily fit within Russia’s largest east-to-west radius of 10,000 km and the north to the south side of 4000 km. However, its population is less than that of small country Bangladesh.

This one is cool and interesting. For every human, there are approximately 1.6 million ants in the world. However, the weight of all ants combined is nearly equal to the weight of all humans.

India is home to the world’s largest family. Ziona Chana has 39 wives 94 children, 14 daughters-in-law, and 33 grandchildren. They live in a 100 room, four story house amidst the hills of Baktwang village in the north-eastern state of Mizoram, India.

Here’s one interesting tech-fact. Microsoft holds a patent for opening a new window when you click upon a hyperlink. It will expire in 2021.

Mr. Ureta planted as much as 7000 trees and made a guitar-shaped forest as a tribute to his wife. However, he has only seen the photograph of the complete guitar as he is plagued with a fear of flying. He went through a traumatic event in his youth.

Butterflies were originally called flutterflies

When Adolf Hitler was a kid, he wanted to be a priest. However, it didn’t quite materialize that way. He also suffered from Ailurophobia (fear of cats)

Cockroaches were there as much as 120 million years before dinosaurs spanned the earth

Las Vegas casinos have no clocks. It leads customers to spend more time

In 1948, The Reserve Bank of India had issued provisional notes for the Pakistani Rupee. Pakistan did not have the facilities then. It had the stamp of Government of Pakistan. They began printing it later in 1948

This one is cool stuff. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows

There’s another one for you. The tongue is the strongest muscle in the body

The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,” has every letter in the English language

Coca-Cola was originally green

Each king in the deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades – King David Clubs – Alexander the Great Hearts – Charlemagne Diamonds – Julius Caesar

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil

Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump

The iPhone, the Rubik’s Cube, and the Harry Potter books are the top 3 most sold products in the human history

The Pokémon characters namely Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan have been named after Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan

The bluebird with the Twitter logo has the name: Larry. The creators of this social network have named the bird after the basketball player Larry Bird

99% of microbes inside the human body are still unknown to science

If you go on to make ice cubes using tap water, they will appear white. However, if you use boiled water, they will look transparent

A single human hair can support as much as 100 grams in weight

The United States Highway 550 in Colorado near Durango and Silverton is called the Million Dollar Highway. It has been paved with low-grade gold ore in the roadbed

There are as much as 30 million dead people on Facebook

Humming Bird is the only bird that can fly backward. It beats its wings up to 80 times per second

The giant panda is actually a bear

Eskimos & Polar Bears are only found in the Arctic and not in the Antarctic

France is the most visited country in the world

Australia is regarded as the most obese country in the world as reported in 2012. It has an obesity rate of 26%

The United States has no official language

The US has the maximum number of airports in the world. In fact, as much as one-third of all airports in the world are located in the US

Saudi Arabia is the only country that has no rivers

A single cloud can weigh up to 1 million pounds

You tend to burn more calories while sleeping than you do watching television

You cannot snore and dream at the same time

A sneeze can travel at a speed of about 100 miles per hour

10% of the World’s population is left-handed

Guinness Book of Record has the record of being the most stolen book from Public Libraries

A human breathes on an average about 8,409,600 times a year.

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